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Dec 11, 2019 · The Ideal Palace is the story of how Cheval built one of the wonders of France – a fantasy palace 12 metres high and more than 30 metres long, from river stones, fossils, pebbles and shells. He worked on it for 33 years, mostly under candlelight.
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Jan 16, 2019 · The Ideal Palace: Directed by Nils Tavernier. With Jacques Gamblin, Laetitia Casta, Florence Thomassin, Bernard Le Coq. Cheval is a postman who travels every day along the Drôme.
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The Ideal Palace – movie review. Based on a true story, this is a tale of one man’s obsession to build a monument to his beloved daughter. Set in France, the film begins in 1979 and pans some three decades.
A French postman dedicates 33 years of his life to building his daughter a stone palace. The movie is seductively pleasurable, for most of its length. Tavernier corrals the emotions and...
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Jun 26, 2019 · The Ideal Palace is rated PG for some tasteful nudity and is playing limited sessions at your favourite local arthouse cinema. Graeme Tuckett reviewed the film for Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan on Friday 21 June.
Summaries. Cheval is a postman who travels every day along the Drôme. He meets the woman of his life, Philomena and from their union Alice was born. He then throws himself into a crazy gamble: to build her with his own hands, an incredible palace.
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Dec 12, 2019 · The Ideal Palace retells the true story – and retraces the footsteps – of Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (played by Jacques Gamblin), a happily introverted, almost verbally and emotionally repressed postman, who… builds a palace for his daughter. And by doing so, is able to express some pretty epic emotions.